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- You can never plan the future by the past.
- Edmund Burke (1729 - 1797)
- Nobody knows the age of the human race, but everybody agrees that it is old enough to know better.
- Anonymous
- Chance fights ever on the side of the prudent.
- Euripides (484 BC - 406 BC)
- The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself.
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
- You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
- Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)
- The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value. I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.
- Thomas Paine (1737 - 1809)
- I've developed a new philosophy... I only dread one day at a time.
- Charles M. Schulz (1922 - 2000), Charlie Brown
- If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.
- Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
- Every man has his follies -- and often they are the most interesting thing he had got.
- Josh Billings (1818 - 1885)
- Who so loves believes the impossible.
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806 - 1861)
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